Alexei
17-05-2007, 21:00
ZABBIX SIA is proud to announce the availability of ZABBIX 1.3.8.
ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution.
ZABBIX is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both
commercial and non-commercial use. The full license is available at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.
This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX 1.3.8. The release
supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite only.
ZABBIX 1.3.x is currently in a feature freeze. We take the feature freeze
seriously and mainly work on fixing actual bugs.
We are releasing ZABBIX 1.4 in May!
Do not use this release in production! It is for beta testing only.
The following sections describe the release in detail and provide
late-breaking or other information that supplements the main
documentation.
What's New in 1.3.8
:: Misc functionality and fixes
revision R6 of ZABBIX Manual
increased server side key length up to 255
fixed active check communication
fixed eventlog
same step color for both graphs in Monitoring->WEB
support of more flexible trigger function count(period,pattern)
improved WEB monitoring
changed type of httptest.lastfailedstep to integer
added check for a list of status codes for WEB monitoring
added acknowledge management for overview screen
added default groups for users 'guest' and 'Admin'
added http status code configuration for web monitoring
new column httpstep.status_codes
set DENY permission as default for ZABBIX users
fixed Error in "Cancel" after ack of a trigger
fixed index.php looping on db connection fail
button "Update" renamed to "Refresh" in data export
fixed translation behavior for housekeeper configurations
fixed time movement for history data
symbols ')(!' allowed for item keys
improved management of triggers
other improvements and bug fixes
Installation and Upgrade Notes
Installation
See the Installation Guide http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.4/install.php for full details. See http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.4/install_source_web.php for information about Installation Wizard.
Upgrade
See ZABBIX Manual for upgrade instructions. Please do not upgrade production systems! The release may or may not work on your system. It has been tested on a very limited number of systems.
Pre-release testing
ZABBIX Server
ZABBIX Server has been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
* Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11, MySQL 4.x
* Ubuntu Linux, Intel, kernel 2.6.15, MySQL 5.0.22
ZABBIX Agents
ZABBIX Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
* Linux 2.6.11 (Ubuntu)
* Windows XP
* Windows XP 64bit
Note that agents are available pre-compiled from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php for a limited number of versions and platforms.
Commercial support
ZABBIX Company provides full range of professional services. Please contact our sales department for pricing and more details.
References
* ZABBIX v1.1 Manual http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/index.php
* ZABBIX v1.3 (beta) Manual http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/ZABBIX Manual v1.4.pdf
* ZABBIX Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum)
* ZABBIX Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php)
ZABBIX is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution.
ZABBIX is released under the GPL, thus it is free of charge for both
commercial and non-commercial use. The full license is available at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt.
This document contains the release notes for ZABBIX 1.3.8. The release
supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite only.
ZABBIX 1.3.x is currently in a feature freeze. We take the feature freeze
seriously and mainly work on fixing actual bugs.
We are releasing ZABBIX 1.4 in May!
Do not use this release in production! It is for beta testing only.
The following sections describe the release in detail and provide
late-breaking or other information that supplements the main
documentation.
What's New in 1.3.8
:: Misc functionality and fixes
revision R6 of ZABBIX Manual
increased server side key length up to 255
fixed active check communication
fixed eventlog
same step color for both graphs in Monitoring->WEB
support of more flexible trigger function count(period,pattern)
improved WEB monitoring
changed type of httptest.lastfailedstep to integer
added check for a list of status codes for WEB monitoring
added acknowledge management for overview screen
added default groups for users 'guest' and 'Admin'
added http status code configuration for web monitoring
new column httpstep.status_codes
set DENY permission as default for ZABBIX users
fixed Error in "Cancel" after ack of a trigger
fixed index.php looping on db connection fail
button "Update" renamed to "Refresh" in data export
fixed translation behavior for housekeeper configurations
fixed time movement for history data
symbols ')(!' allowed for item keys
improved management of triggers
other improvements and bug fixes
Installation and Upgrade Notes
Installation
See the Installation Guide http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.4/install.php for full details. See http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.4/install_source_web.php for information about Installation Wizard.
Upgrade
See ZABBIX Manual for upgrade instructions. Please do not upgrade production systems! The release may or may not work on your system. It has been tested on a very limited number of systems.
Pre-release testing
ZABBIX Server
ZABBIX Server has been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
* Ubuntu Linux, AMD64, kernel 2.6.11, MySQL 4.x
* Ubuntu Linux, Intel, kernel 2.6.15, MySQL 5.0.22
ZABBIX Agents
ZABBIX Agents have been compiled and tested on the following platforms:
* Linux 2.6.11 (Ubuntu)
* Windows XP
* Windows XP 64bit
Note that agents are available pre-compiled from http://www.zabbix.com/download.php for a limited number of versions and platforms.
Commercial support
ZABBIX Company provides full range of professional services. Please contact our sales department for pricing and more details.
References
* ZABBIX v1.1 Manual http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/index.php
* ZABBIX v1.3 (beta) Manual http://www.zabbix.com/downloads/ZABBIX Manual v1.4.pdf
* ZABBIX Forums (http://www.zabbix.com/forum)
* ZABBIX Support (http://www.zabbix.com/support.php)